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1980Aaron Brown, English footballer and coach[†]
Aaron Wesley Brown is an English professional footballer who is player-coach at Paulton Rovers. His younger brother Marvin also played professionally and both were with Bristol City at the same time.
1980Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby player and coach[†]
Ben Herring is a professional rugby coach who is currently the head of rugby at Sydney AAGPS school, Newington College, located in the inner west suburb of Stanmore. Previously Head coach of Otago and Toyota Verblitz. Herring has coached with two national sides, Canada and Japan, and with two super franchises.
1980Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Indonesia (born 1902)[†]
Mohammad Hatta was an Indonesian statesman, nationalist, and independence activist who served as the country's first vice president as well as the third prime minister. Known as "The Proclamator", he and a number of Indonesians, including the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno, fought for the independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands. Hatta was an important figure during the Indonesian national awakening and during the national revolution. As a youth he was politically active in both the Netherlands and the Indies, which led him to be imprisoned in the Boven Digoel concentration camp for his activism. He also played a crucial role in the proclamation of Indonesian independence, being the second person to sign the declaration besides Sukarno, thus making him one of the founders of Indonesia.
1980Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (born 1928)[†]
Félix Samuel Rodríguez de la Fuente was a Spanish naturalist and broadcaster. He is best known for the highly successful and influential TV series, El Hombre y la Tierra (1974–1980). A graduate in medicine and self-taught in biology, he was a multifaceted charismatic figure whose influence has endured despite the passing years.
1980LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.[†]
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 was an Ilyushin Il-62 that crashed near Warsaw-Okecie Airport in Poland, on 14 March 1980, as the crew aborted a landing and attempted to go-around, killing all 77 passengers and 10 crew members on board. It was caused by the disintegration of a turbine disc in one of the plane's engines, leading to uncontained engine failure. The turbine shaft was later found to have manufacturing faults.
DEARBORN, Mich., March 13-- Henry Ford 2d resigned today as board chairman of the Ford Motor Company, leaving the automotive giant without a Ford at the top of the company for the first time since...
ALBANY, March 13--Three state auditors broke into the headquarters of the Division of Criminal Justice Services here in the fall of 1978 to demonstrate weaknesses in the security of the office, the State Comptroller disclosed today.
Swirling clouds of snow, enveloping Manhattan and outlying areas last night, deposited an official 3.6-inch accumulation in the city before turning to sleet followed by freezing rain soon after midnight. There was a possibility of flurries over inland areas between 5 and 8 A.M., according to the National Weather Service.
WASHINGTON, March 13--The Administration announced today that it had accepted a higher guideline for restraining wage increases, but the announcement came as organized labor's support for the President's anti-inflation policies appeared to be eroding because of proposed budget cuts in domestic programs.
CHICAGO, March 13--John Wayne Gacy was sentenced today to die in the electric chair for the murders of 33 boys and young men.
WASHINGTON, March 13--John B. Connally was influential last weekend in swaying the Governors of Texas and Ohio against backing Gerald R. Ford's entry into the Republican Presidential race, and their switch could prove a decisive deterrent to Mr. Ford's candidacy, associates of Mr. Ford reported today.
ALBANY, March 13--Soaring interest rates and public warnings about the state's finances will increase the cost of New York State's annual $3 billion borrowing this spring, officials predicted today. That would further complicate negotiations on a state budget for the fiscal year that begins April 1.
KILLENAULE, Ireland, March 13-- An amateur treasure hunter, digging through a brown bog here in County Tipperary, has made what archeological experts are referring to excitedly as "the find of the century."
WASHINGTON, March 13--The United States has evidence that all 50 American hostages are alive and in captivity in the embassy compound in Teheran, a ranking State Department official said today.
WASHINGTON, March 13--Citing the dictates of practical politics, the House of Representatives today approved a House-Senate compromise on a tax on the "windfall" profits earned by oil companies on decontrolled, domestically produced oil.
I was wondering if anything interesting on the news was going on when I was born, and decided to create this website for fun. The purpose is to show people what was going on when they were born. With this website I've found out that it was a pretty slow news day on my birthday, but I bet it would feel cool to know a historical event happened on your birthday.
The data used in this project is provided by the New York Times API. They have by far the best API I was able to find, with articles dating back to the 1950s. There weren't any other major newspapers that had an API with close to as much data. The closest was the Guardian API, but theirs only went back to the 1990s. I decided to only use articles from the New York Times because their API was by far the best. This tool works if you have a birthday after the 1950s or so.
Some important dates in history I'd recommend looking up on this website are:
These historical events are just a few examples of the fascinating moments in history you can explore through this tool. Whether you're interested in your own birthday, significant historical dates, or just curious about what was making headlines on any given day, this website offers a unique window into the past through the lens of contemporary news coverage.
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